Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters winchester 90gr and 120gr pep ammo for 25-06 remington

got about 10 boxes of each and have never tried them out yet wondering how they expand or hold up on deer or medium sized game

I can't remember for sure, but I *think* the 90gr may have been more geared towards varmints and smaller game. The 120s work very well on deer, but my sample size is very limited.

I think those are the Sierra HPBT bullets. May be wrong. Regardless, my brother used the 120 load for several years with great results.

GreggH

No, hollow point shape is entirely different than the Sierra. Bullet is much blunter.

My remarks are based on the basis of one mule deer buck shot at about 200yds with the 120gr PEP.

Buck stopped and watched the does. I shot him broadside on the right side, right behind the shoulder, mid of the chest, top to bottom. Buck hunched up and walked a couple of steps, then turned and faced back in the opposite direction. I shot him again on the left side (the bullet passed within a couple of inches of the first shot. He fell down and died.

When field dressing, it appeared that both bullets may not have expanded much, if at all. Dead deer, but had to be shot twice, and the bullets may have "pencilled" through.

Just one deer that I can positively remember using that bullet.

IMO, the 90gr was designed/intended as a varmint bullet.

PEP = power point?

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Posituve Expanding Point. PEP.

The 120 grain in 25.06 is a very good bullet but I no longer believe in HP rounds on deer at all since 93. The pictures of the bullet construction shows definitely not Sierra or Nosler, Speer is doubtful.